Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's time trial

Men's track time trial at the Games of the I Olympiad
The french participants Flameng and Masson
Venue	Neo Phaliron Velodrome
Date	April 11
Competitors	8 from 5 nations
Medalists
Paul Masson  France Stamatios Nikolopoulos  Greece Adolf Schmal  Austria

Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men
Track cycling
Time trial		men
Sprint		men
10 km		men
100 km		men
12 hour		men

The men's time trial was one of 5 track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth event on the cycling schedule and was held on 11 April. The first time trial competition was the only time that Olympic time trials were held over the distance of one-third of a kilometre; when the event returned to the programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics the distance was set at one kilometre.

Results

The time trial race was once around the track, or one-third of a kilometre. It was held on 11 April and eight cyclists competed. Masson won his third race of the day, with Schmal and Nikolopoulos tying for second place and having to compete in a race-off for the second position.

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Paul Masson (FRA)	24.0 s
2	Stamatios Nikolopoulos (GRE)	26.0 s
	Adolf Schmal (AUT)	26.0 s
4	Edward Battel (GBR)	26.2 s
5	Frederick Keeping (GBR)	27.0 s
	Theodor Leupold (GER)	27.0 s
	Léon Flameng (FRA)	27.0 s
8	Joseph Rosemeyer (GER)	27.2 s

Race-off

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Stamatios Nikolopoulos (GRE)	25.4 s
2	Adolf Schmal (AUT)	26.6 s

In this race, Nikolopoulos improved upon his time from the first round, winning the race for an overall second-place finish. Schmal was slower in this race than he had been in the first one.

References

• (Digitally available at [1])
• (Excerpt available at [2])